Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-24
A LESSON WITH A MORAL.
When Will Our Eyes be Opened to this Great
National Calamity?

The year 1856 played sad havoc with
many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning
passing away apparently in the full flush
of life.
Others were sick but comparatively
short time. We turn TO our files and are
astonished to ind that most of them died
of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous
prostration, of malignant blood humor,
of Bright's disease, of heart disease, of
kidney disease, OF rheumatism or of
pneumonia.
1t Is singular that most of our promi-
nent men die of these disorders. ANY
journalist who watches the telegraph re
ports, will be astonished at the number
of prominent victims of these disorders.
Many statements have appeared in our
paper with others TO the effect that the
diseases that carried of SO many promi-
nent men in 1856, are really one disease,
taking different names recording to the
location of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, it be.
comes tie nine days talk of the sporting
world and yet thousands of ordinary
horses are dying every day, their aggre
gate loss is enormous, and yet their
death creates no comment.
So 1t is with individuals The cause of
death of prominent men creates com
ment, especially when II can be shown
that one unsus pected disease carries of
most of them, and yst "vast numbers of
ordinary mon and women die before their
time every year from the same cause
IL Is said II the blood is kept free from
uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis,
nervous prostration, pneumonia, rheuma-
tism, and many cases of consumption,
would never be known. This uric acid,
we are told, Is the waste of the System,
and il is the duty of the kidneys to re-
| move this waste
We are told that If the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
| kidney, acid is kept cut of the blood, and
these sudden and universal diseases caus
| ed by uric acid will, in large measure,
| disappear.
But how shall this he doneg II is folly
to treat effects. If there is any known
way of getting at the cause, that way
should be made public. We believe that
Warmers safe cure, of which so much has
been written, and SO much talked of by
the public generally, is now recognized
by impartial physicians and the public as
the one specific for such disease.
Because public attention has been di'
rected to this great remedy by means OF
! advertising, some persons have not be-
lieve6 in the remedy. We cannot see how
Mr.. Walner could Immediately benefit the
public in any other way, and his valuable
specific should not be condemned because
sumo nostrums have come before the pub
lie in the same way, any more than that
! al doctors should be condemned because
so many of them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinion:
you hear on every side of the great rem
edy, and public opinion thus based upor
an actual experience, has all the weigh
and importance of absolute truth.
At this time of the year the uric acit
In the blood invites pneumonia and rheu
matism, and there is not a man who doe'
not dread these monsters of disease; ba
he need have no fear of them we arr
told, if he rid the blood of the uric aciS
cause.
These words are strong, and may soun'
like an advertisement, and be rejected a
such by unthinking people, bat we be
lieve they are the truth, aud as sue
should be spoken by every truth-lovini
newspaper.
California lettuce is affirmed to be bet
ter, more crisp and delicate than an
grown in the East.
"Would you marry an old man for hi
money!" asked Mildred. "Wel, | dc
clare exclaimed Laura, with startle
air, "you don't suppose anything els
would induce me TO marry himl"